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MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC
MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,408,456 to it, the largest being Senior Citizens Foundation Inc ($735,436). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Rich Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Meals on Wheels Texasportfolio match
- Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Agingportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 84% · 2018 85% · 2019 85% · 2020 50% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% · 2024 95% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $79k → $70k.
1 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 77% · 2019 26% · 2020 42% · 2021 28% · 2022 79% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
22% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 43 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Rich Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 79 organizations near you
- Meals on Wheels Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Life Community Enrichment Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Metro Meals on Wheels Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ann Katherine Spear Humanitarian Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Young at Heart Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Thomas C Burke Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zeist Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 113 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,408,456 to it, the largest being Senior Citizens Foundation Inc ($735,436). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,408,456 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC?
- Senior Citizens Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $735,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 43funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing